Tips for reducing food waste

If you don’t throw food away, you’ll save money.

The best place for milk is not on the refrigerator door. InkaSoveri

Every Finn throws an average of 25 kilos of food in the trash a year.

Sustainable Lifestyle Consultant Otso Sillanaukee tells his own tips for reducing waste Food & Future podcast.

These four surprising tips for Bridge Bridge might help reduce the amount of loss.

1. Ordering food at home

According to Sillanauke, the shopping list can now be replaced by ordering food at home. Ordering food forces you to plan your next week’s meal.

Potatoes can be eaten with their shells. Roni Lehti

2. Developing cooking skills

Few of us learn to cook new foods to reduce food waste. According to the bridge opening, it is learning to cook that is the key to reducing waste. Parents of young children in particular know that not all food is often eaten. According to Sillanauke, these residual doses should be put to good use.

“We lack certain habits, habits and skills to utilize, for example, leftovers, slightly faded vegetables and salads and surplus foods,” says Sillanaukee.

3. Not all vegetables need to be peeled

As a child, we have all been taught how to peel potatoes, carrots and other vegetables.

According to the bridge opening, it is useless. The shells of most vegetables are completely edible.

Tropical fruits should not be stored in the refrigerator. Mari Moilanen

4. The refrigerator will spoil some food

It comes as a surprise to many that food can be stored in the refrigerator incorrectly. When done incorrectly, refrigerated storage speeds up the spoilage of many foods.

For example, tropical fruits peel quickly in the refrigerator. Many also store their milk in the wrong place.

– Milk should not be stored in the refrigerator door, as it is the warmest place in the refrigerator, Sillanaukee guides.

The Arlan Food & Future podcast, produced by Suomen Podcastmedia, deals with the future of food and its production. The series is hosted by Heidi Puharinen, a nutrition specialist at the Food Clinic.

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